Senior Financial Analyst Jobs

Overview

▶ Who we are

Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.

As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. “Brain Freeze” is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 77,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.

But there’s a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.

At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. It’s what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers.

Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us.

▶ How we lead

At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles.

1. Be Customer Obsessed
2. Be Courageous with Your Point of View
3. Challenge the Status Quo
4. Act Like an Entrepreneur
5. Have an “It Can Be Done” Attitude
6. Do the Right Thing
7. Be Accountable

Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.

▶ About This Opportunity

The primary purpose of this role is to support the mission of the FP&A Consolidation team in successful financial management of complex departmental budgets, P&Ls, and forecasts. Specific duties include working with teams and senior leadership on performing financial analysis and serving as the subject matter expert during reporting, forecasting, and budgeting exercises. This position will lead the bi-monthly and long-range forecasting process and be responsible for financial ad-hoc requests and general consulting.

Responsibilities

• Design ways to effectively and efficiently report P&L data sourced from various systems and spreadsheets. This includes quick-turnaround ad-hoc requests.
• Develop and build out financial models necessary to complete Business Plans, Budgets, Mid-Year Plan and Bi-Monthly Forecasts. This requires gaining a thorough understanding of key business drivers to accurately forecast the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
• Consolidate and analyze P&L data from Accounting, Functional Departments, and entities across the company to create reliable bi-monthly forecasts.
• Participate in department initiatives to build / implement new tools for forecasting and budgeting. Forecast future spending based on modeled historical data and upcoming programs / initiatives. Work with numerous functional departments to build inputs into the forecasts / budgets.
• Analysis of operational and functional areas of the company including senior management requests for information and analysis. Examples include creating / maintaining a reporting system to track and analyze financial performance across all P&L lines. Collaborate with all departments to create metrics-based reporting to identify potential areas for improvement. Partner with functional departments to improve and streamlines processes and identify cost saving opportunities.
• Build budgets for functional areas across all financial lines for 12-month annual budget process. Model current YTD plus forecasted ROY spending to build next year budgets. Perform anomaly analysis to remove noise from budgets and systematically budget for each unique financial line based on historical trends, expected future spending based on feedback from functional departments and upcoming programs / initiatives spending.
• Build visual analytics using Microsoft Power BI that improve company leadership understanding of historical & current spending, as well as industry benchmarking.
• Regularly interact with C-Suite Functional Leaders to provide financial support, verification of results and reporting. Prepare comprehensive monthly / YTD results dashboard that involves comparative analysis of budgets versus current year forecasts / actual results and prior year results. Address or escalate inquires as a primary financial liaison to ensure timely, appropriate action / resolution and/or effective interpretation of the financial implications of business activities.

Qualifications

• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels across the company
• Expert financial modeling & business case development skills; strong quantitative & financial analysis skills
• Experience with TM1 is preferred
• Experience managing a full P&L
• Previous experience modeling three-statement models
• Prior experience in a Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, or Consulting role
• Great team-player and collaborator with a can-do work ethic
• Keen attention to detail with superior organizational skills and passion for driving change
• Analytical capability to effectively analyze trends & hypotheses and make strategy recommendations
• Experience with developing SQL queries and Power BI dashboards is a plus
• Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Knowledge and skills gained through an advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Math, or Statistics
• 5+ years of financial analysis experience
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment across multiple tasks